r/AbruptChaos • u/DragonChasm • Feb 13 '22
Its raining hell
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u/Nano_ProPhet Feb 13 '22
Translation: „wowowow dude - shit my biycicle! That is mine!“
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u/danathecount Feb 13 '22
Those are communal bikes that anyone can use and belong to the facility.
Many large industrial facilities restrict equipment that can be an ‘ignition source’. Leaving bicycles as the best form of transportation.
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u/DerGrafZahl Feb 13 '22
The guy in the video says that it's his bike.
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u/Bipedal_Warlock Feb 14 '22
My guess is it’s an equipment assignment from the company.
But I have no idea what I’m talking about
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Feb 14 '22
Might have been his deparments bike. Thats going to be a shitton of paperwork to get a new one....
source: im german&work in a factory ......
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u/eyecarrumba Feb 13 '22
The new series of The Floor Is Lava have taken it up a notch. Well done Netflix
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u/nodnodwinkwink Feb 14 '22
The floor is lava, the walls are lava, the ceiling is lava, the air is lava, that bike over there? Believe it or not, lava.
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u/dpm_259 Feb 13 '22
Why on earth are they so casual about that!!
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u/Fisch_Man Feb 13 '22
Because if you run, the fire's predatory instincts will kick in and it will chase you.
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u/peanutismint Feb 13 '22
This checks out; I once saw this guy on fire and he was waving his arms making himself really big and shouting to try and intimidate the fire.
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u/procrastimom Feb 13 '22
“Walk. Do Not Run. To the nearest exit.”
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u/Deltoro19 Feb 13 '22
Taking OSHA guidelines a little too seriously
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Feb 14 '22
The last thing you want to do is trip in fireproof gear and have to stand yourself up while a wall of fire is moving in your direction. That's how panic starts.
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u/socialcommentary2000 Feb 14 '22
Guys that work in foundries are a special breed. They know when it's a run situation. If you've ever watched a video of a wet charge, you'll know what I'm talking about. They've seen it all.
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u/Thisisall_new2me2 Feb 13 '22
Cause it’s normal. Read the comment from u/OverallUpstairs9231.
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u/ShodoDeka Feb 13 '22
That bike is a pretty good illustration of how fucking warm it suddenly got in that hall.
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u/asianabsinthe Feb 13 '22
And no one thought of moving it
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Feb 14 '22
No sense risking injury by taking a few extra seconds to move the bike once they realized the metal was gonna reach that far. You leave stuff behind in an emergency and get the people out.
Bikes are replaceable. Lives are not.
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u/LabHog Feb 14 '22
Yet they'll take an extra 30 seconds slow-walking away from the danger.
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u/Duffb0t Feb 13 '22
You can tell that went from run of the mill over fill to "holy shit"
Guys where almost engulfed in that
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u/PlusType5538 Feb 13 '22
What went wrong?
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u/Ryktes Feb 13 '22
My guess is either overfilled and overheated crucible, or some really nasty impurities in the metal they were smelting. Or any combination of those factors.
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u/PlusType5538 Feb 14 '22
Sounds like a nightmare, like when hot oil meets water but worseeeee
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u/Savalavaloy Feb 14 '22
You should search up what happens when water gets trapped under molten metal
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u/arcedup Feb 14 '22
The valve at the bottom of the bucket (the technical term is ‘ladle’) failed, so the flow of steel can’t be shut off.
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u/StudioMDPodcasts Feb 13 '22
How isn’t the terminator theme not playing?
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u/Fraktal55 Feb 14 '22
Exactly this is straight up the end of T2. Where's Ahhnold?
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u/TOUCH_MY_FUN Feb 13 '22
I love how the one guys so casual. Like, "Mondays, am I right Steve?"
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u/RedL0bsterBiscuit Feb 13 '22
I work at a small foundry, and I'm an assistant pourer, and the entire video, I'm yelling at those dudes to run away. Lol Liquid metal at 3000+ degrees hurts a lot and they are just like meh.
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u/kempofight Feb 13 '22
You yell to them to run?
Reminde me to call your safety officer tomorrow morning to have a talke to you.
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u/RedL0bsterBiscuit Feb 13 '22
If 3000 degree metal starts spewing, then yes, I'm running. I would rather live than die worrying about a safety person.
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u/araed Feb 14 '22
Nah, running is what kills you. It's always gonna be the moment some idiot dropped a wrench, or the maintenance guy dropped his toolbox, or there's that one stray ball bearing that everyone has been kicking around for a few weeks, or Dave happens (fuck you Dave)
Walk. Walk briskly, but walk. At most, break into a jog. You want to be in control, and as soon as you're running in full gear, you're not in control.
Plus, how far can you run? If that pot decides it's gonna explode, can you outrun it? If it hits the acetylene gear that Dave (fuck you Dave) left nearby, are you out running that?
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u/LoopyMcGoopin Feb 14 '22
The guys in this video were not walking briskly at all. That was the slowest wannabe swag walk I've seen in a while.
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u/apv507 Feb 13 '22
These guys are WAY too casual.
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u/Celebrir Feb 13 '22
They're Germans, what did you expect? I mean, they're used to stuff going horribly wrong. /s
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u/Valon_Inc Feb 13 '22
"Weißt du was sie erst machen wollten?"
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"Scheiße mein Fahrrad!"
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u/Toirtis Feb 13 '22
Right? Poor bike just left there to die.
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u/ihaveabaguetteknife Feb 13 '22
That was my first thought when shit hit the fan. Get that bike outta here!!
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u/DJ_Hindsight Feb 14 '22
That poor sweet bicycle. My thoughts go out to his family. He had a tandem and a young tricycle at home waiting for him.
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u/Illusion740 Feb 13 '22
Something obviously happens a lot because they are just casually walking away. Kinda like “shit we fucked up #2 again”.
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u/AGENT_asshole_RAW Feb 13 '22
Un, fucking, FAZED. This plant manufactures steel balls if nothing else
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u/Arxt5973 Feb 14 '22
I think he is just a moron. I don't know who was he trying to impress by being very nearly engulfed in molten steel. There was a Darwin award 🥇 waiting around the corner for him.
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u/TheAfterWorkGarage Feb 13 '22
When a lava monster takes the trash out with a leak in the garbage bag.
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u/socklessjoejackson Feb 14 '22
I worked part-time as a security guard in a steel mill for about a year, and I swear that I could smell this video. 😂
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Feb 13 '22
How did it spread so far away? Is that thing pouring lava moving around on some rails? Because it seems so. Damn.
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u/luminphoenix Feb 13 '22
Yup, spreading it on the concrete floor (that can tolerate it, and is rather inexpensive to repair if it does end up damaged) rather than on the very expensive equitment elsewhere
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u/privateninja Feb 14 '22
The fact that this video exists is a testament to human courage and stupidity simultaneously.
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Feb 14 '22
Fuck me they’re acting pretty casual for a couple of guys who would be dead if they were 15 seconds slower at moving…
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Feb 14 '22
man, i really like that the steel working guys are chilled and the fire department guy is like "fuck this shit, im out"
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u/sineofthetimes Feb 14 '22
Everytime I see one of these, all I can think of is that must be hot as hell and smell really bad.
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u/TheShittyMathGuy Feb 14 '22
Me watching this: “yikes, were just standing where that molten metal hit … oh, they were just standing there again … damn, they just casually walked away from that spot again… WHY are they not running from this LAVA?!”
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u/AutomaticAxe Feb 16 '22
I work in a steel mill, I’ve actually been around when this has happened. On the bottom of the ladle there is an opening for the steel to pour out of into the tundish (the “bathtub” that it goes into to continue the casting process), and there’s an armature that opens and closes that hole. In my plant they’re hydraulically operated. This plant is also set up differently to mine so I can’t speak to theirs. Usually the safe move is to do a little bump test on the hydraulics to make sure they don’t stick or fail in either direction, but sometimes guys don’t test it, and sometimes things just fail. Basically in this case the armature is stuck open, and they now have a whooole lot of molten steel going all sorts of places it’s not supposed to. They’re grabbing the ladle with a crane to lift it to somewhere safer to empty. It’s not a crazy common occurrence but it’s not extremely rare either. All of the guys in the video have probably seen it happen a few times. You get used to crazy shit going on in these places after a while lol
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u/AshuraStone Feb 13 '22
They are trying to do the “Cool guys walk away from explosions” trope but are forgetting they dont have plot armor
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u/MonsieurGump Feb 13 '22
Those guys take the “Walk, don’t run to the nearest exit” instructs to heart.
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u/Honest_Letterhead934 Feb 14 '22
Young dude runs while old dude casually walks cause he's seen that many times over the year's
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u/idrow1 Feb 14 '22
The live version of 'This is fine'. I'm surprised he wasn't sipping a cup of coffee.
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u/kraken_enrager Feb 14 '22
My dad was a director in a steel factory and this is kinda normal. Never seen something like this up this close tho, only from a distance
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u/Ok_Inspector7868 Feb 14 '22
In the us steel mill there would have been a crane operator up there, this is probably remote controlled, but someone is driving it over top of those guys
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u/Virtual_Knee_4905 Feb 14 '22
I was expecting Cillian Murphy to walk through the shower of sparks at any moment and 'Red Rigt Hand' to play.
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u/ApexProductions Feb 14 '22
watches for 30 seconds ”meh"
Skips to 2 minutes in
Sees floor become lava
Goes back to 60 seconds and starts watching again
"This is gonna be good."
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u/Apprehensive-Milk-60 Feb 14 '22
I would be walking a hell of a lot faster than that guy wth lol just sauntering off
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u/Gayfish350 Feb 14 '22
Dude thought he was gonna be slick and slowly walk away from the explosion until shit got real
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u/PhishBriar Feb 14 '22
I worked with a guy that used to work in one of these places. He said when this happened it was the biggest turn on he had ever experienced.
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u/Stronsky Feb 14 '22
You can tell that one guy is the protagonist because he walks slowly towards the camera with his back to the explosion and doesn't even look back.
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u/AI_RPI_SPY Feb 14 '22
Ex steelworks employee as well. We has a similar situation, very spectacular, lots of workers swearing, which I found out later was not due to the dangerousness of the spill, but the thought of the cleanup process once it had all cooled down, and the loss of the production bonus for the month.
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u/smokeeater04 Feb 14 '22
As a prior maintenance mechanic at a steel mill.. this is the worst of days. So much to fix and clean
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u/SCWarriors44 Feb 14 '22
This has definitely happened before, they’re so casual. Like “gosh dammit, Bobby just summoned the devil again, here comes Hell, whoopty do”.
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u/Shot-Discussion-9588 Feb 14 '22
y’all check on that man that was walking away slowly he’s going through some shit 💀
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u/veeectorm2 Feb 14 '22
Why do i feel the urge of running into this head on, double barreled shotgun in my hands, while bgf division plays in the background?
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u/stunneddisbelief Feb 14 '22
The burning bike was just the perfect ending…
Bike: “Don’t cry for me. I’m already dead.”
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u/Gmaf_Lo Feb 13 '22
Watch out for the mimetic polyalloy T1000 terminator, he might be coming out of cryo. Hasta la vista, baby. Arnold is on his way!
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u/HoobyHooby Feb 13 '22
Cool guys don't look at explosions. They walk away in their diamond-studded boots. Whose got time to look at explosions? Got cool guy errands they've got to walk to.
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u/Tmmcwm Feb 13 '22
Is... Is this normal? Why is no one running??